Subject: Re: The Great Went (poss. spoil./explanation)
From: georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel)
Date: 1992-09-15, 14:55
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <lba18nINNbeb@news.bbn.com> ingria@BBN.COM writes:
> >In article <Sep.13.20.27.58.1992.29730@andromeda.rutgers.edu> kwest@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Kenneth C West) writes:
> >
> >   Okay, a line in FWWM that has everybody mystified, including me, is
> >   Jacques in the Pink Room saying "I am the Great Went" and "I am as blank as
> >   a fart". I've been re-watching the series in my spare time, and have an
> >   interesting find:
> >
> >   Second season, third or fourth episode, when Norma announces that
> >   the mysterious food critic is coming to Twin peaks. No one knows who this
> >   critic is or even what they look like. The name of the critic? M.T. Wents.
> >   So, when Jacques says "I am the Great Went", I think that maybe his fart
> >   reference meant empty, as in M.T.
> >
> >No.  Remember, Jacques puts his hand to his head in the shape of a gun
> >and then ``fires'', but still stays alive; hence, the ``blank'' part.
> >But how is a fart blank?
> >
 How is a fart blank? Because it is not a sh*t - excuse my french. :-)

> >     So this means.....what? That Jacques 
> >   moonlighted as a food critic?
> >
> >But we find out who the critic is: Norma's mother, so if there's any
> >reference from the Great Went to M.T. Wentz, it's a meta-joke by
> >Lynch, et al., not one by Jacques.
> >
> >-30-
> >Bob

 I agree with The Grent Went, and The Muffin referring to Laura's and
 Jacques SEXcapades and maybe "I am blank as a fart" means there is nothing
 in bis head - drunk? These two were just jokes as far as I am concerned,
 Tommy and Buck start laughing after he says it.

 -=*George*=-


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